FOUR BOOKS AVAILABLE VIA WILD CLEARING ...

"TURNED LOOSE," "STRINGER," "OPENING THE GATE," AND "POLITICAL GRACE: THE GIFT OF RESISTANCE" are available via links at Wild Clearing's home page ...

HELEN AND ANNA CONSTRUCT JAN'S MEMORIAL SCULPTURE

From my the first draft of my novel-in-progress "TILT" -- Helen Rice and Anna Pietersen construct Jan Hoekstra's memorial sculpture -- image with text from Scrivener software:

ANNA REFLECTS ON HELEN AND HER IN "TILT"

Excerpt from Part 2 of "TILT" -- Chapter 14, first scene ... (Draft)

(The beginning and deepening of Helen Rice and Anna Pietersen's relationship)

Anna Pietersen wandered over her plot of lowland, weaving slowly through the scattered sculpted assemblages Jan Hoekstra had placed on the property over their years together on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

Something that will work within another assemblage that Helen and I are collaborating on, she thought, yet represent him and what he meant to me. He never promoted his work, always the recluse. So difficult that way. Another forgotten yet very fine artist. I, too, similar, hating the marketplace. Helen is different. I am sure it has been frustrating for her, too. And now we two intertwine, as creative beings and aging partners. Companions, maybe, until one of us dies. Life ends. There is no more. And then the earth is gone and all our works vanish. What does it matter? I will not let go of this thought. Yet I will defy it, even if the work is only temporal.

Defiance, that is what I am looking for, she thought. A piece that defies both celestial gravity and the gravity of inevitable destruction. ...

PROGRESS IN 1ST DRAFT OF "TILT"

Where I am in the first draft of my novel "TILT" -- writing in Scrivener software ... 21,000 words, roughly 86 paperback pages, probably halfway through ... — at Wild Clearing.

"TILT" NEW WORKING TITLE OF NOVEL-IN-PROGRESS

'TILT' is the new working title of my novel-in-progress, formerly called 'Clarity." It is the third in the series that includes 'Turned Loose' and 'Stringer.'
I'm thinking of using the key characters in future works too, much the same way as noir and mystery novels do. Some excerpts highlighting the characters are in posts below.